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While the younger generation has grown up with the internet, social media and so on, there are many who find it harder to navigate these new worlds. Age UK has conducted research on digital exclusion in the UK. It found that 25% of people aged 65 and over in the …

A post office branch in Brentwood is soon set to close, after the site’s premises for post office use was withdrawn. Harewood Road post office in Pilgrims Hatch is currently located inside a Co-op store. The post office had a variety of services available. You can deposit cheques, withdraw cash …

A Post Office branch in Essex which has been earmarked for closure with a Morrisons store shutting could be saved and moved further down the road. The Post Office inside the Morrisons Daily store at Shenfield Broadway next to the station is due to shut on Sunday April 13. It …

The Post Office has confirmed its branch inside an Essex Morrisons Daily store will be closing along with the shop – with no immediate plans for a replacement branch. The Post Office said the store in Hutton Road, Shenfield will be closing on April 16 this year following the announcement …

More than 100 high street banks are being closed by Lloyds Banking Group. The banking giant has announced plans to close dozens of Lloyds and Halifax banks as well as some Bank of Scotland branches. The closures will take place between May this year and March 2026, including six branches …

Transport for London (TfL) services are set to operate differently on Boxing Day 2024. Services on the Elizabeth Line, which runs to Brentwood and Shenfield in Essex, will be very different. There will also be a swathe of changes to Overground services. On the Overground, there will be no trains …

Brentwood’s annual garden and flower competition could be coming back more than eight years after it was last held. Brentwood Council has agreed to work with the new Business Improvement District manager and Chamber of Commerce to look at options to support a new Brentwood in Bloom initiative. The Brentwood …

An Essex subpostmaster among those falsely accused of theft, fraud and false accounting has told an inquiry he “contemplated suicide” after being left with a bill of £17,000 due to flaws within the Post Office system. Between 2000 and 2014, more than 700 subpostmasters and subpostmistresses (SPMs) were prosecuted based …